Intimacy and visual communication in social media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2653889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Mette Thorhauge (0000-0002-5100-5587, University of Copenhagen), Jakob Demant (0000-0003-3333-224X, University of Copenhagen), Jakob Johan Demant, Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager (0000-0002-3180-0583, Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 67 |
| Pages | 001-005 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MedieKultur Journal of media and communication research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0900-9671 • E-ISSN: 1901-9726 |
| Publisher | Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7146/mediekultur.v36i67.118198 |
| OpenAlex | W3008187577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
Sharing (intimate) photos has become an integral part of close relationships in the ageof social media. Most young people use social media as a way to establish and main-tain strong social ties rather than as a way of connecting to public life. This pattern ofuse includes the sharing of photos and videos with intimate and sexual content, suchas nudes, intimate situations, and other types of self-disclosure. Given that the primary public and academic interest has been related to situations where the process has gone wrong and people have been hurt, these photos and videos are often associated with risk, worries, and moral disdain. However, these cases are part of a broader range of social practices, which are for the most part unproblematic and mundane. The sharing of inti- mate photos should be acknowledged as part of a more general act of (mutual) self-dis- closure to establish trust as well as an non-patalogical exploration of sexuality and social identities. In both cases, the sharing of intimate photos becomes part of more general processes of intimacy and close relationships that we should be careful not to reject or problematize as a whole. Accordingly, in this themed issue we would like to move beyond the stories of problem youth and move instead towards a more empirically grounded and systematic analysis of the complex ways in which the sharing of intimate photos becomes part of everyday life practices, including friendship, courtship, trust, and intimacy
Advertising · Business · Internet privacy · Multimedia · Social communication · Social media · Sociology · Visual Communication · Visual media · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |